Announcement and Call for Abstracts

        MINISYMPOSIUM ON COUPLED PROBLEMS IN ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING

    To be held at the Fifth U.S. National Congress on Computational Mechanics
  Wednesday-Friday, August 4-6, 1999, University of Colorado at Boulder, CO, USA

            Symposium Organizers:  B. A. Schrefler, H. Rajaram

Environmental problems are essentially multiphysics problems and often
involve coupling of several fields. This MiniSymposium will 
provide a forum for presentation and
discussion of innovative numerical techniques for the solution of
such coupled problems in the field of environmental engineering.

Contributions are solicited in the following areas:

o Environmental geomechanics
o Soil pollution due to chemical pollutants, hevy metals, non aqueous phase liquids
o Pollutant transport in partially and fully saturated soil
o Confinement of industrial, municipal and nuclear waste
o Durability of geomaterials such as natural stone, concrete and brick
o Surface subsidence due to groundwater withdrawal and above hydrocarbon reservoirs
o Inverse problems related to environmental engineering
o Natural hazards: avalanches, land slides
o Innovative numerical techniques for coupled problems
o Operator splitting techniques
o Efficient time stepping schemes for coupled problems
o Contaminant transport

Submission Instructions

If you are interested in contributing to this MiniSymposium, please submit 
a one-page abstract of up to 400 words by e-mail to Professor Schrefler
on or before January 15, 1999.
Abstracts sent by Fax or regular mail will not be considered.

Abstracts may be submitted in one of two forms:  (1) plain text,
(2) TeX source compatible with the Plain TeX format, or 
Please do not include figures or graphics.
Avoid equations in title or text.  Greek letters are acceptable if
the abstract is submitted in TeX.  For samples of forms (1) and (2) 
click links in

http://civil.colorado.edu/usnccm99/Abstracts.d/Information.html

If the abstract is co-authored it must identify the e-mail of the corresponding
author. All subsequent correspondence will take place by e-mail.

Abstracts deemed to fit the scope and objectives of the Symposium will be
communicated to the Congress organizers and
notification of acceptance will be given by e-mail to the corresponding author.

A final version for inclusion in the printed book of Abstracts may be
submitted before May 15, 1999.  This final form is to be sent directly to the
Congress e-mail address following the instructions posted on the Web site.

MiniSymposium Organizer Addresses

Professor Bernhard A. Schrefler
Department of Structural and Transportation Engineering
University of Padua via F. Marzolo 9 - 35131- Padova, Italy     
http://www.dic.unipd.it/docenti/bas.html
Phone: +39 (0)49 8275611                                 *
Fax:   +39 (0)49 8275604                            
e-mail: bas@caronte.dic.unipd.it 
   
Congress Program and Registration Information

Posted at:  http://civil.colorado.edu/usnccm99